Providing students with learning opportunities whereby they will learn strategies to deal with challenging situations to overcome failure with success.
Developing learners who can transfer their learning to a range of contexts.
Big Idea: Students will learn to step up to face challenging situations and implement learnt strategies that will enable them to make successful decisions in a team environment.
Purpose Statement:
In this inquiry students will understand the need to step up to challenging tasks and become a risk taker.
Year Level/s: Years 6-8
Approximate Duration: 7 Weeks
Key Concept Key Understanding Essential Learning Area
Social Responsibilities Thinking ahead & pre-choosing in different Literacy
situations fulfilling commitments and transferring in Social Science
all other contexts resulting in habit. Health & P.E.
Learning Experiences to develop Key Concepts/Understandings
Failure vs success
Class discussion- Regrets,
What is failure/success?
How does failure/success make us feel?
In order to succeed we must fail.
Complete a list of personal setbacks and achievements
Students Pair up and share responses - report back to class
Record some examples on Board - 1 Student to record Electronically.
Christopher Columbus- Was he a success or failure?
Movie “The World’s Fastest Indian”
The story of Burt Munro.
Create a personal time line that indicates Burt’s setbacks and achievements.
Step Up Inquiry Planning
Our goals for the unit “step up” are:
Big Idea: Students will learn to step up to face challenging situations and implement learnt strategies that will enable them to make successful decisions in a team environment.
Purpose Statement:
In this inquiry students will understand the need to step up to challenging tasks and become a risk taker.
Year Level/s: Years 6-8
Approximate Duration: 7 Weeks
Key Concept Key Understanding Essential Learning Area
Social Responsibilities Thinking ahead & pre-choosing in different Literacy
situations fulfilling commitments and transferring in Social Science
all other contexts resulting in habit. Health & P.E.
Learning Experiences to develop Key Concepts/Understandings
Failure vs success
Class discussion- Regrets,
What is failure/success?
How does failure/success make us feel?
In order to succeed we must fail.
Complete a list of personal setbacks and achievements
Students Pair up and share responses - report back to class
Record some examples on Board - 1 Student to record Electronically.
Christopher Columbus- Was he a success or failure?
Movie “The World’s Fastest Indian”
The story of Burt Munro.
Create a personal time line that indicates Burt’s setbacks and achievements.